Continuing with my reading of bibliography on the minor characters, this week I’ve perused David Galef’s The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (1993), a volume less well regarded than Alex Woloch’s The One and the Many but still quite remarkable. Whereas Woloch focuses on the 19th century novel (Austen, Dickens, Balzac), […]
Continuando con mi lectura de bibliografía sobre personajes secundarios, esta semana he repasado The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters (1993) de David Galef, un volumen menos conocido que The One and the Many de Alex Woloch, pero muy notable. Mientras que Woloch se centra en la novela del siglo XIX (Austen, […]
Comparative Literature is a strange discipline because it consists of seeing similarities between very dissimilar texts, usually written in different languages but also in the same language. The whole discipline depends on serendipity, as a particular scholar needs to think of particular connections that are not evident, a type of discovery that only happens quite […]
La Literatura Comparada es una disciplina extraña porque consiste en ver similitudes entre textos muy disímiles, generalmente escritos en diferentes idiomas pero también en el mismo idioma. Toda la disciplina depende de la serendipia, ya que el estudioso interesado necesita pensar en conexiones que no son evidentes, un tipo de descubrimiento que solo ocurre por […]